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Something I would like to say before I do this review: I feel very out of my element doing this. It's very hard for me to talk about the dance/circus style of Cirque du Soleil because I know very little … [Read more...]

One of the oddest things about The Beatles' catalogue is that they never really released a proper live album. OF course, given that the Beatles' concerts usually topped out at 30 minutes, that the band stopped performing just as the band's music … [Read more...]

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The first time I listened to Sam Smith's hit single, I felt a strange feeling of Deja Vu, like I'd heard something just like it. And for some reason, Tom Petty, George Harrison, and Johnny Cash … [Read more...]

Well, now that there's something happening in the music world, Paul McCartney held a Q&A session on his website. One of the questions he was asked was: "How do you feel about students now studying popular music with a focus on The Beatles?" The … [Read more...]

Credit for image: Paul Townsend via flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred)
From the Swinging Sixties right up until the present day, the UK has always been at the cutting edge of musical trends. It started with an explosion of … [Read more...]

The Beatles have been apart for a long time. In fact, this month marks the 45-year anniversary of Paul McCartney giving an interview to Life magazine where he admitted that The Beatles were, for all intents and purposes, finished. But, in all that … [Read more...]

Say what you will about Paul McCartney's solo work, but there's a general consensus that 1973's Band on The Run is one of the best albums, and, shortly after the album's release, Paul McCartney and Wings made a small concert film called One Hand … [Read more...]

Yet another Beatle guitar has been put up for auction. And, unlike the last one I covered, this one doesn't even have much of an interesting history.
A 1963 Gretsch 6120 owned by John Lennon will be auctioned off at Le Meridien Hotel in Piccadilly … [Read more...]

"Eleanor Rigby" should need no introduction. If it does, let me break it down for you: "Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the Beatles off their album Revolver. It's the story of two lonely people, Eleanor Rigby and Fr. Mackenzie, living out their lives of … [Read more...]

Long-time readers of my column and long-time fans of The Beatles may recognise a frequent theme in the surviving members of the Fab Four's business deals: They are VERY protective of their image, which is why you very rarely hear their songs played … [Read more...]

Last week, I posted an article about how the creator of The Tudors was going to make a miniseries about the Beatles for NBC and I spent a lot of time talking about how difficult it would be to get the rights to the music. Well, it looks like the … [Read more...]

This will either be very good news, or very bad news: Michael Hirst, creator of The Tudors, is planning work on a show based on The Beatles' career. The show is planned to be an eight-episode miniseries. Honestly, I personally have some misgivings. … [Read more...]

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The Beatles are probably the most well known British band all over the world. And this week we bring you our next design a tribute to them and the famous road they … [Read more...]

Check out this cool historical picture of The Beatles in the last picture of the group taken together. The photo was taken at John Lennon’s home Tittenhurst Park in the Berkshire English countryside on August 22, 1969. It was part of their last photo … [Read more...]

It's not every day that one of the Beatles' guitars gets sold at auction. In this case, it's one of their less iconic guitars, but it actually has one of the more interesting stories behind it, and Peter McCormack has written a surprisingly … [Read more...]

For all the many good things we can say about Paul McCartney, one we couldn't say until recently was that he created memorable music videos. The Beatles were among the first English-language artists to record music videos for their songs, but, with … [Read more...]

This is rather cool. Every Anglophile knows the classic photo of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road. Here's a picture of them preparing to do it just moments before. What a neat window into history!
Here's the after picture:
Very cool! … [Read more...]

The August 29, 1966 gig at Candlestick Park may be one of the most famous gigs in the Beatles' history, mainly because it was the last scheduled gig the Fab Four played together. As a result, Candlestick Park has earned its place in history. But, … [Read more...]

Two years ago, one of John Lennon's wisdom teeth, extracted during the height of Beatlemania, and kept by his housekeeper and her daughter for years, sold at auction for £19,000, where it was bought by a Canadian dentist. He put part of it into a … [Read more...]

We all know that when he was part of the Beatles, he wrote some of the best song lyrics ever. Even after the band broke up, he still did quite a few great lyrics ("Imagine," and "Working Class Hero" to name just two). Of course, as many die-hard … [Read more...]

I really don't understand why, but, for whatever reason, the Beatles do have the tendency to put their films in and out of print. We all know they haven't let Let it Be be released since the 1980s, back when it was available on SelectaVision, by all … [Read more...]

Richard Lester is still alive; it's only his career that's dead. But, anyway, it looks like he's found the need to sell some items from his personal collection, and, as the man who directed two of The Beatles' films, it only makes sense that he's got … [Read more...]

We all know the story of the Beatles. Quite a few of us know the story of Monty Python. But how many of us know the history of the time when Eric Idle and Neil Innes decided to create the definitive parody of The Beatles?
The Rutles were … [Read more...]

Earlier, I talked about how Paul and Ringo reunited to perform at this year's Grammy Awards and speculated whether or not they'd take part in the Beatles tribute concert that would be recorded the next day. Well, that was a foregone conclusion.
On … [Read more...]

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are set to perform together at the 2014 Grammy Awards this Sunday, January 26.
Paul's been nominated for quite a few Grammies this year, including "Cut Me Some Slack" by "Beatvana" for Best rock song, his reissue of … [Read more...]

In the leadup to the release of Paul's new album "New," Paul did two surprise gigs in New York. The first happened on October 9th when he went to Tony Bennett's Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, wherein he performed the following … [Read more...]

If you remember the old episodes of the Simpsons, you might remember an episode where Ringo Starr guest-starred. Marge sent Ringo a painting she had made of him, asking for an honest opinion, and 30 years later, he finally got around to responding to … [Read more...]

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